Edward Young Quotes

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

I believe poetry has very little to do with memory.

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.

In every culture, in every language, there is expressive play, expressive word play; there's language use to different purposes that we would call poetry.

What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it.

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it.

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

I do think that all of us think in poems.

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.

Writing poems is a chance to construct spaces that I want to imaginatively inhabit.

It's not easy to define poetry.

Without poetry, stories would be told in sepia.

The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs and convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than with what these words designate.

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.

But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.